Search for crossword answers and clues
Cutting grass and curing it to make hay
Answer for the clue "Cutting grass and curing it to make hay ", 9 letters:
haymaking
Alternative clues for the word haymaking
Word definitions for haymaking in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The cutting of grass and subsequently curing it to make hay as fodder for animals
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Haymaking \Hay"mak`ing\, n. The operation or work of cutting grass and curing it for hay.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Haymaking is the process of hay production and harvest. Haymaking may also refer to: The Hay Harvest (also known as Haymaking ), a 1565 oil on wood painting by Peter Bruegel Haymaking , a 1860 painting by Peter Paul Marshall Haymaking , a 1877 painting ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. taking full advantage of an opportunity while it lasts cutting grass and curing it to make hay
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ After the children returned to school in mid-August there came haymaking and harvesting the oats. ▪ Farmers were never averse to some eager additional help at haymaking and harvesting time. ▪ It must have been a long summer holiday ...
Usage examples of haymaking.
There had been a haymaking harvest-home which was supposed to give special occasion for mirth, as Sir Alured farmed the land around the park himself, and was great in hay.
He ate blackberries along the hedges, minded the geese with a long switch, went haymaking during harvest, ran about in the woods, played hop-scotch under the church porch on rainy days, and at great fetes begged the beadle to let him toll the bells, that he might hang all his weight on the long rope and feel himself borne upward by it in its swing.
Every last bit of it, good and bad - Marmite, village fetes, country lanes, people saying 'mustn't grumble' and 'I'm terribly sorry but', people apologizing to me when I conk them with a careless elbow, milk in bottles, beans on toast, haymaking in June, stinging nettles, seaside piers, Ordnance Survey maps, crumpets, hot-water bottles as a necessity, drizzly Sundays - every bit of it.